We're All Mad Here » 2008

07-22-08

Into the kitchen I go…

…with my arsenal of ziploc bags, to seperate the groceries for the month. I need more coffee.

07-22-08

I like to surf the net

for “home organization tips” as if the sole act of surfing will get everything in it’s place. Yeah right.

07-21-08

“WTF are you doing?

more cat pictures

S:… You know I get notifications on facebook whenever you comment on people’s pictures”

D: What? She’s a friend from school.

ON: “This is so hot you know how much i like me a pirate wench.” ~D on Facebook pic of blonde girl…who is not me.

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D: she has a pig heart? Really? (on phone)

s: Well, there’s a hell of a conversation starter for you.

(P.S. Ask about the “God, I miss you” text boy genius left on my cell phone from girl above after he switched his SIM card out of it. My other husband is a genius car. He has an I’m super smart cape.) It went like this…

S; I don’t even use that kind of emphasis with my mom “GAWD, I miss you.”

D; What, she’s religious?

PS. For those who take this literally, I really love my hubby and enjoy picking on him for his “Pimptacular” skills. HEART.

07-20-08

Like, OMG…green is the new black!

I spent the last five minutes in my garden watching the ground move. No, it wasn’t sun stroke, I wasn’t dizzy…well, originally. But after I realized it was an inch and a half maggots nomming the rotten tomatoes I “fed” the bean plants last weekend I became a bit dizzy. BLEAH.

It’s funny, I’m so tolerant of the cute things in our little established ecosystem… baby geckos (EVERYWHERE), butterflies, I can even tolerate the caterpillars and the snails that eat through my passion flower plant. (But hey, there be no room for prissy plants…if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen!) Sometimes I forget it comes with the not so pretty too, like ground moving maggots. BLEAH (sorry, that’s me puking a little).

Which brings me to my moral dilemma… my zucchini-melons are dying. (p.s. not a new hybrid, I just forgot where I planted the zucchini and where I planted the cantaloupe, so I just call all of them zucchini-melons, no need for species confusion, unlike gender…not so much a social construct) I have things eating them, and leaving black pellets (eggs? poop?). I feel like I need to kill them. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to kill them, but then again I want a happy-little-peaceful-social-utopia-hippie-commune garden and war is not the answer. I’m getting an existential crisis from a bug.

07-19-08

“I can’t believe you morons…

…buy this crap” ~ Banksy

WebUrbanist is doing an 8 part on Banksy. nom.

ROCK!

07-18-08

Holy crap

So Holly, over at Decor8 is hosting this great give away…here is just a sneak of some of it all…AND I DROLLED ALL OVER THE SCREEN (but at least that is one way to get the baby prints off of it)

And P.S. Apparently Secret is strong enough for a man, David wore my lavender scent today b/c he couldn’t find his old spice. By the end of the day it smelt very boy like though, like I want to hide my face in your arm pit for a few hours (I love boy smell…good smelling boy smell, not rolling in poop and sweat smell). He told me not to blog about this, so I did.

07-18-08

Front Page of Etsy!

1.) First off, I was featured in a treasury!

2.) Secondly, it was featured on the front page! ROCK!

07-18-08

Mommy Bloggin’! The Artsy Fartsy Edition

Disasters: Painting, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

This is my ode to all the picture perfect mommy bloggers out there with your perfect gardens, your perfect kids, your perfect recipes, and our perfect art. You all lie! This is the artsy fartsy edition.

I finished a new piece today! It’s perfect! and then the kids started to fight, Iz started wailing, I went to break up the battle, came down stairs to make a snack and then got the thought (premonition) “Oh shit” I knew what was going on and that it was too late. All I could do was hold my breath until I climbed the stairs with bowls of cheerios and raisens, two tippy cups of milk and walla. My 95% (so I lied, but I was close) completed piece had new additions…of ink scribbled all over the face of it. Yeah. Whatever.

07-18-08

Mommy Bloggin’! The Kitchen Edition

Disasters: Quiche, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

This is my ode to all the picture perfect mommy bloggers out there with your perfect gardens, your perfect kids, your perfect recipes, and our perfect art. You all lie! This is the kitchen edition.

This quiche is made from my garden…delicious vine ripened tomatoes, baby black eyed peas, cuban oregano…and it tasted like ass. It’s only half done in this picture. It went back in the oven and when it came out only the crust was good enough to eat…and THAT was not made by me.

07-18-08

Mommy Bloggin’! Garden Edition

Disasters: Lemon Balm Drowning, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

This is my ode to all the picture perfect mommy bloggers out there with your perfect gardens, your perfect kids, your perfect recipes, and our perfect art. You all lie! This is the garden edition.

rundown of disasters: above, “I envy you florida gardeners, with your extended growing season.” I heard this on a blog once. Not sure where. Our extended growing season? Try this…our backassward growing season. Summer is the new Winter and those gardening hints an tips that apply to the rest of the country…don’t mean jack here. “Sow before the first frost” translates to “sow when your skin is crispiest and the tourists start to leave. You’ll know it will be the right time, because the snow birds will be back…so when your traffic accidents peak and your insurance premiums spike…then it’s time” anyway drowning lemon balm from the recent monsoons that have been hitting every afternoon for three hours.

David, being david and freaking out about the hornets living in our bamboo wind chime proceeded to destroy the colony and thus…two weeks later my aphid problem grew to exponential proportions…taking over the healthy plant next door to the sacrificial one.